Animorphic ST (Strongtalk) released!

Stephen Pair spair at advantive.com
Fri Jul 19 13:53:32 UTC 2002


David Griswold wrote:
> If you have to recompile all the perf. critical code 
> everytime the system starts up, all this might mean very slow 
> startup, and noticeable pauses for compilations thereafter.  
> But one way to get around all of this might be to keep the 
> compiled code in ObjectMemory and save it with the image, in 
> which case you could start the system in an already optimized 
> state (complicates image portability, but worth it).  In this 
> case, people would generally want to do 'training' runs of 
> their code to get them mostly optimized, and then save the 
> image.  Compilation then becomes a fairly rare thing after 
> training is done.

Would it also be possible to simply tell the system to compile
everything?  Thus, eliminating the need to do 'training' runs and
achieve maximum performance?

- Stephen




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